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Nong nghiep: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in processing wood for export
Vietnam’s wood industry is trying to ‘green’ the supply chain and map out a path of transforming production to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to catch up with the trend of the times. FPTF Managing Director, Phuc Xuan To, discusses how enterprises can benefit from carbon credits.
Vietnam Investment Review: Apprehension apparent over fresh CBAM regulations
Industrial manufacturers and Vietnamese analysts have reacted to upcoming EU rules on greenhouse gas emissions reporting with both support and concern. FPTF Managing Director Phuc Xuan To emphasizes how important it is for Vietnam to strike a balance between economic development and emissions.
The Saigon Times: More challenges ahead
Stringent requirements for a clean energy transition, sustainable materials, and low-carbon and eco-friendly production present new challenges to Vietnamese manufacturers. Phuc Xuan To, Managing Director of our Forest Policy, Trade, and Finance Initiative, offers his insight.
S&P Global: Carbon markets still in search of ways to quantify ‘beyond-carbon’ benefits
Developers of nature-based carbon projects in North America are still searching for ways in which voluntary carbon markets can value the co-benefits of projects, like improved biodiversity and economic development, that are supplemental to their climate benefits. Conversations from Ecosystem Marketplace’s recent Insights Briefing offer opportunities and challenges on how to quantify these co-benefits.
Nhân Dân: Vietnamese timber companies strive to overcome challenges
Currently, the Vietnamese timber sector has seen a sharp fall in orders, and even when there are orders, most of them are small ones. FPTF Managing Director Phuc Xuan To says timber exports will continue to face a market slump.
VietNamNet Global: Artisan communities strive for legal wood
Many wood artisans are in need of support so that their works can get recognition in the global supply chain. Dr. Phuc Xuan To, Managing Director of Forest Trends’ Forest Policy, Trade, and Finance Initiative, warned that the use of illicit wood for exports will deprive Vietnam of opportunities in broadening the market.
AllAfrica: Africa: Balancing Protection and Profit in the Congo Basin
The Congo Basin is the world’s second largest tropical rainforest and its biggest carbon sink. Yet more than a quarter of its forests could vanish by 2050 if deforestation, caused mostly by illegal logging, continues unchecked. FT provides data.
The Indian Express: Myanmar teak trade: highly prized, highly dodgy
After the February 2021 military coup, both the EU and the US imposed sanctions on all timber trade with Myanmar and categorized Myanma Timber Enterprises as a banned entity. Despite this, the flow of teak originating from Myanmar continues. FT analysis included.
Forest Trends irá lançar recursos de treinamento em financiamento climático voltado a comunidades indígenas que estejam explorando os mercados de carbonos
Os recursos provenientes do financiamento climático estão sendo alocados, em grandes quantidades, em mecanismos responsáveis por remunerar proprietários e administradores de terras pelas reduções de emissões obtidas com a proteção e restauração de áreas que atuam como sumidouros de carbono florestais. Estes mecanismos, incluindo o REDD+ jurisdicional e o mercado voluntário de carbono, apresentam novas […]
Forest Trends to launch climate finance training resources for indigenous communities navigating carbon markets
Climate finance is pouring into mechanisms that pay land managers for the emissions reductions achieved from protecting and restoring forest carbon sinks. These mechanisms, including jurisdictional REDD+ and the voluntary carbon market, present new opportunities for indigenous communities worldwide – who are widely recognized as the planet’s most effective protectors of forests – but also […]